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Land Degradation Neutrality Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The LDN Fund invests in projects which reduce or reverse land degradation and thereby contribute to ‘Land Degradation Neutrality’. The LDN Fund is co-promoted by the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and Mirova. It is a public-private partnership using public money to increase private sector investment in sustainable development. The fund invests in sustainable agriculture, forestry and other land uses globally. The Fund was launched at the UNCCD’s COP 13 in China in 2017.
Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is a widespread and lucrative criminal activity causing major global environmental and social harm. The IWT has been estimated to be worth up to £17 billion a year. Nearly 6,000 different species of fauna and flora are impacted, with almost every country in the world playing a role in the illicit trade. The UK government is committed to tackling illegal trade of wildlife products and is a long-standing leader in efforts to eradicate the IWT. Defra manages the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, which is a competitive grants scheme with the objective of tackling IWT and, in doing so, contributing to sustainable development in developing countries. Projects funded under the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund address one, or more, of the following themes: • Developing sustainable livelihoods to benefit people directly affected by IWT, • Strengthening law enforcement, • Ensuring effective legal frameworks, • Reducing demand for IWT products. By 2023 over £51 million has been committed to 157 projects since the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund was established in 2013. This page contains information about Rounds 7 onwards. For information about Rounds 1 to 6, please see the IWTCF website -https://iwt.challengefund.org.uk/
Darwin Initiative
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Darwin Initiative is the UK’s flagship international challenge fund for biodiversity conversation and poverty reduction, established at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The Darwin Initiative is a grant scheme working on projects that aim to slow, halt, or reverse the rates of biodiversity loss and degradation, with associated reductions in multidimensional poverty. To date, the Darwin Initiative has awarded more than £195m to over 1,280 projects in 159 countries to enhance the capability and capacity of national and local stakeholders to deliver biodiversity conservation and multidimensional poverty reduction outcomes in low and middle-income countries. More information at https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/the-darwin-initiative. This page contains information about Rounds 27 onwards. For information about Rounds 1 to 26, please see the Darwin Initiative website -https://www.darwininitiative.org.uk/
Fleming Fund - Sierra Leone Country Grant (FAO) Animal Health
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
This is an Official Development Assistance (ODA) funded UKaid project from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)’s Fleming Fund which helps to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the burden of drug-resistant infection is greater. This grant is delivered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and managed by the Fleming Fund management agent as part of the wider portfolio of country, regional and fellowship grants. The grant aims to develop the foundations for AMR and Antimicrobial Use (AMU) surveillance in the animal health sector and some aspects of AMR surveillance in the environment in Sierra Leone. Its primary objectives are to: (1) Strengthen One Health* governance and data sharing; and (2) Strengthen the AMR and AMU surveillance system in animal and environmental health. (*One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimise the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognises that the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and interdependent.) See ‘Fleming Fund - Country and Regional Grants and Fellowships Programme’ GB-GOV-10-FF_MA for more information on the objectives of country grants. This project was not put out to an open, competitive tender process because the Fleming Fund Managing Agent identified this implementing partner as uniquely placed to undertake project delivery. However, UN policy states that commercial agreements must be MoUs and must be signed with participating countries. As such, DHSC facilitated the signing of commercial agreements for downstream partners of the Management Agent where appropriate.
Fleming Fund - Sierra Leone Country Grant (WHO) Human Health
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
This is an Official Development Assistance (ODA) funded UKaid project from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)’s Fleming Fund which helps to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the burden of drug-resistant infection is greater. This grant is delivered by the World Health Organization (WHO) and managed by the Fleming Fund management agent as part of the wider portfolio of country, regional and fellowship grants. The grant aims to develop a robust AMR diagnostic stewardship programme in Sierra Leone, increasing the data collected, analysed, and used. At the national level, it will integrate AMR surveillance into other areas of work at sector and integrated surveillance levels. Efforts will be made to increase health workforce capacity to perform advanced microbiology testing techniques. In addition, coordination will be strengthened following One Health* principles, and practitioner engagement and policy initiatives will be implemented to encourage the use of AMR data. (*One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimise the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognises that the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and interdependent.) See ‘Fleming Fund - Country and Regional Grants and Fellowships Programme’ GB-GOV-10-FF_MA for more information on the objectives of country grants. This project was not put out to an open, competitive tender process because the Fleming Fund Managing Agent identified this implementing partner as uniquely placed to undertake project delivery. However, UN policy states that commercial agreements must be MoUs and must be signed with participating countries. As such, DHSC facilitated the signing of commercial agreements for downstream partners of the Management Agent where appropriate.
Sierra Investment Fund
British International Investment plc
A Sierra Leone-focused small-cap private equity fund.
Frontier Energy II Delta K/S
British International Investment plc
Planet Solar is a 50MW solar PV project in Sierra Leone and the country’s first large-scale grid-connected solar Independent Power Producer (IPP), developed by Frontier Energy and Planet One
Miro Forestry Developments Limited
British International Investment plc
Miro Forestry is a sustainable forestry company with plantations in rural Sierra Leone and Ghana, producing plywood and other value-added wood products.
Miro Forestry Developments Limited
British International Investment plc
Miro Forestry is a sustainable forestry company with plantations in rural Sierra Leone and Ghana, producing plywood and other value-added wood products.
Miro Forestry Developments Limited
British International Investment plc
Miro Forestry is a sustainable forestry company with plantations in rural Sierra Leone and Ghana, producing plywood and other value-added wood products.
Miro Forestry Developments Limited
British International Investment plc
Miro Forestry is a sustainable forestry company with plantations in rural Sierra Leone and Ghana, producing plywood and other value-added wood products.
Solon Capital Holdings
British International Investment plc
Mano River Union focused fund
Miro Forestry Developments Limited
British International Investment plc
Miro Forestry is a sustainable forestry company with plantations in rural Sierra Leone and Ghana, producing plywood and other value-added wood products.
Ecobank Sierra Leone RSF
British International Investment plc
A risk share facility for on-lending to borrowers in Sierra Leone.
Ghana International Bank MRPA
British International Investment plc
Ghana International Bank (GHIB) was incorporated in the United Kingdom in 1998 and is Authorised and regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority. GHIB is owned by a consortium of major Ghanaian financial institutions, with the Central Bank of Ghana serving as majority shareholder. Today, GHIB focuses on six key areas: treasury and global markets, trade finance, corporate and institutional banking, retail and small business banking, correspondent banking, and payment solutions, to support the economies of Ghana and the wider African continent.
CEC Africa
British International Investment plc
Investment by CDC in CEC Africa to tackle the severe shortage of power in Sierra Leone and West Africa
SCB Sierra Leone Risk Participation Facility
British International Investment plc
Agreement between CDC and Standard Chartered Bank, allowing businesses to get the finance they need from local banks to reach international markets.
SFC - GCRF QR funding
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Formula GCRF funding to the Scottish Funding Council to support Scottish higher education institutes (HEIs) to carry out ODA-eligible activities in line with their three-year institutional strategies. ODA research grants do not represent the full economic cost of research and therefore additional funding is provided to Scottish HEIs in proportion to their Research Excellence Grant (REG). In FY19/20 funding was allocated to 18 Scottish higher education institutes to support existing ODA grant funding and small projects. GCRF has now supported more than 800 projects at Scottish institutions, involving over 80 developing country partners.
UUKi Delivery Support
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
These are delivery cost for shared learning workshops/training and best practice (for current and future applicants) on ODA assurance, eligibility, reporting and partnership working through either the NF and GCRF
Ad-hoc GCRF activity on BEIS Finance system
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Increased contributions towards a range of research projects jointly funded with DFID, and funding for the Devolved Administrations for disbursement to universities within the devolved regions to fund the full economic cost of GCRF ODA research.